The Magazine

May / June 2007

Articles

Cover Story

Rules of Engagement

A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.

By John Laurence

Feature

Style Over Substance

Despite India’s media boom, its journalism is shrinking.

By Basharat Peer

Feature

The Shield Bearer

How a conservative congressman from Indiana became journalism’s best ally in the fight to protect anonymous sources.

By Bree Nordenson

Feature

The Curious Case of Victor Pey

Why the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.

By John Dinges

Feature

Soldiers’ Stories

What fires up the journalists at Military Times is the vulnerability of the community they cover

By Alia Malek

Ideas + Reviews

Review

The Flaw of Averages

How polls obscure America’s many social patchworks

By Rick Perlstein

Review

A Place at the Table

Setting the record straight on early black journalists

By Cynthia Tucker

Second Read

On the Rocks

Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World

By Douglas McCollam

Essay

New Grub Street

How did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?

By Christopher Shea

Review

Brief Encounters

Short reviews of books about press photography in Northern Ireland, fame in America and journalist Rose Wilder Lane

By James Boylan

Departments

The Research Report

When Does the White House Watchdog Bark?

More often than you think

By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil

Darts and Laurels

Darts & Laurels

Send tips and comments to [email protected]

By Gloria Cooper

Editorial

Calling Uncle Sam

How government can and should support a free press

By The Editors

On the Job

The Wiki Defense

What Floyd Landis taught the press about drug testing

By Jennifer Hughes

On the Job

Unspoken

Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse

By Judith Matloff

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